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Charity or ‘racket’? Planet Aid, Inc. says it is a nonprofit organization that supports programs in 15 underdeveloped countries. The group, which has 16,000 clothing and shoe collection boxes all around the US, recently expanded into the Bangor, Maine area, which prompted the Bangor Daily News to take a closer look.

Planet Aid is connected to a controversial cult-like Danish group called Tvind.

British journalist Mike Durham, who runs a watchdog website on the group, told the paper that Tvind is a moneymaking global conglomerate masquerading as a humanitarian organization.

“It’s an international ‘charity-business’ racket, controlled by a money-driven cult,” said Durham, who has spent a decade investigating Planet Aid, Tvind and Humana People to People. “This applies to Planet Aid just as much as to all the other parts of this large and weird organization.”

The in-depth article points out that CharityWatch gave Planet Aid a failing grade. But it also reports that, according to a Planet Aid spokesperson, the organization has received support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health.

Case in point: A Jehovah’s Witness with severe learning disabilities can be given blood if his life is at risk during dental surgery, Northern Ireland’s most senior judge has ruled.

Why does a judge need to get involved in such a seemingly no-brainer decision? Because the Watchtower — the legal entity behind Jehovah’s Witnesses, which considers itself to be God’s representative on earth — keeps teaching nonsense about blood and blood transfusions.